[Tutor] bin to dec conversion puzzlement

[Alan Gauld]

On 20/04/15 17:58, Alex Kleider wrote:

>> The key is that the result gets multiplied by 2 each time
>> so for an N bit number the leftmost digit winds up being
>> effectively 2**N, which is what you want.
>
> Shouldn't that be 2**(N-1)?

Yes, sorry.


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